Sanders did raise a lot of concerns for teams during the pre-draft process. He alienated several teams as he strongly believed he would be a top 10 pick, and the ones he did interview with reportedly didn\u2019t go very well<\/a>.<\/p>\n His father, Pro Football Hall of Famer Deion Sanders, was also not shy in expressing his opinion throughout the pre-draft process and could have had head coaches around the league looking over their shoulders as a potential future candidate himself.<\/p>\n Advertisement<\/p>\n The Steelers ultimately landed three players before Sanders went off the board: Defensive tackle Derrick Harmon in the first round (No. 21), running back Kaleb Johnson in the third round (No. 83) and outside linebacker Jack Sawyer in the fourth round (No. 123).<\/p>\n Pittsburgh will hope that decision will not come back to haunt it after the Cleveland Browns drafted Sanders with the No. 144 overall pick<\/a> in the fifth round.<\/p>\n Sanders joins a quarterback room with Deshaun Watson, Kenny Pickett, Joe Flacco and Dillon Gabriel after throwing for 7,364 yards, 64 touchdowns and 13 interceptions over the past two seasons at Colorado.<\/p>\n Shedeur Sanders, Colorado Athletics<\/p>\n This article originally appeared on Steelers Now<\/a>: Insider Explains Why Steelers Passed on QB Shedeur Sanders in 2025 NFL Draft<\/a><\/p>\n Advertisement<\/p>\n Related Headlines<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NFL insider Albert Breer of Sports Illustrated reveals why the Pittsburgh Steelers passed on quarterback Shedeur Sanders in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":105502,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[80,7453,54,26948,11,340,563,1033,7,295,562,493,274,570,6,15,57,1257,572,17],"class_list":{"0":"post-105501","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl-draft","8":"tag-2025-nfl-draft","9":"tag-albert-breer","10":"tag-cleveland-browns","11":"tag-colorado-athletics","12":"tag-deion-sanders","13":"tag-derrick-harmon","14":"tag-deshaun-watson","15":"tag-dillon-gabriel","16":"tag-football","17":"tag-jack-sawyer","18":"tag-joe-flacco","19":"tag-justin-fields","20":"tag-kaleb-johnson","21":"tag-kenny-pickett","22":"tag-nfl","23":"tag-nfl-draft","24":"tag-pittsburgh-steelers","25":"tag-quarterback","26":"tag-russell-wilson","27":"tag-shedeur-sanders"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114629809525500590","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105501","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105501"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105501\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/105502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Pittsburgh](\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/3490facf9127fbb5df29d8e7f4be17e7.jpeg\"\/)
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